A critically
endangered black rhino is coaxed into a cage in the Addo Elephant Park, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa to be transported to Zakouma national park in Chad as part of a programme to restore the species to the country nearly half a century after it was wiped out there.

Sardines form a ‘baitball’ under the surface of the water after being tracked by a mega pod of dolphins on the annual sardine run, the biggest migration of marine wildlife on the planet, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Forming a spiral formation around the fish, the dolphins were able to compress the baitball by surrounding it anticlockwise, gradually reducing the circle more and more.

The spiral rotation not only confused the sardines but also prevented them from escaping. Bryde’s whales joined in, while gannets and other birds dove down from above. Dusky sharks and bronze whaler sharks also got their cut, swimming up from below the baitball.

A baby ring-tailed lemur is one of many animals born in a spring boom at Bedfordshire’s Woburn Safari Park in England. Other new faces include little red-necked wallabies, two addax antelope babies and two eland antelope calves. Members of the public are invited to suggest a name for the new male lemur, via an online competition.
Participants have until 7th May to enter.